There are many obstacles that await the returning citizen from prison. He or she will need a safe place to stay and a job. There are...
Before we can discuss what jail is like, you need to understand the differences between a state prison and a jail. Most people on the outside...
The Rikers Island facilities has ten jails which holds offenders waiting trial. The defendants are there because they cannot afford bail or were not given bail...
During the last three decades, the incarceration rate for women in the United states has increased 646%. Some states are higher and some states are lower,...
In 2006, two guards were attacked by inmates at California’s High Desert State Prison. The warden ordered a full lockdown which restricted all African Americans in...
Almost all defendants, unlike Teresa and Joe Juidice, do not have the luxury of a delayed self-surrender to prison or jail. Teresa Juidice reports to federal...
Our last article discussed that our jails and prisons are the dumping grounds for the mentally ill. Dumping ground can also mean death for mentally ill...
According to Michigan Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard, “Jails have become the dumping ground” for the mentally ill. The sheriff added, “the state and the federal...
After two months of incarceration, it was clear that correctional officers were part–time inmates. Although they went home after their shift, a considerable part of their...
Private medical staff at one Arizona prison told sick inmates requesting medical care, “Be Patient or Pray.” Doctors who visited the prisons in Arizona that provided...